december 24, 2016: mark your calendars! I'll be reading with two heroes at the Loft on February 3rd: dear friend and nonfiction writer Erin Sharkey, and acclaimed novelist (and first woman to win the Thurber Prize!) Julie Schumacher. please come!

september 5, 2016: it won't be out until October 2017, but I'm celebrating now -- just got word that kickass journal Copper Nickel will publish my poem "Dear Wisconsin" !!